Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.

[tmoran@acm.org]

>>     Integer_IO.Get(Line(Last+1 .. Line'last), V(i), Last);
>...
>I'd still prefer all strings start at 1, and I'd do parsing of
>a text stream of integers in a different way (keep track
>of current position without using slices at all).
  I wouldn't usually parse a text stream of integers like that
either, but it's a very short example, using a routine in the
standard library.

  In general, the index of a found item in an array search is more
helpful than the offset.  For instance,
  function Find_Biggest(X : in Array_Type) return Index_Type;
leads to a cleaner recursive (or multitasking) divide-and-conquer
routine than returning an offset into the array.  The offset is
a means to the end, while the index is the end itself, and you can't
return the index if you don't know the X'first.